Hilachas is the Spanish word for those little loose threads that fall all over the floor and sewing area as you finish sewing and snip the tail end of the thread off the sewn area. So does this blog entail the odds and ends of topics of interest, leaving more loose threads to ponder...

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Back in El Paso and My Jane B-5 and B-9

Encouraging Words of the Day

A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make
tempers flare. Proverbs 15:1, NLT Have you ever tried to argue in a whisper? It is equally
hard to argue with someone who insists on answering gently. On the other hand,
a rising voice and harsh words almost always trigger an angry response. To turn away wrath and seek peace, choose
gentle words.

Where has the time gone for crying out loud?
I don’t know why I didn’t post anything on Monday. I was prepared to post something on Wednesday forOne-Flower Wednesday. That was the day we drove 7 hours from our
ranch in the Texas Hill Country to New Mexico where my parents live. They were at the ranch with us so we drove
them home before continuing our trip the next day back to El Paso. I had my hexie flowers made but just did not
ever post anything so that’s what happened to Wednesday. Then yesterday I just didn’t get to my blog
at all so here I am on Saturday. We had
a pile of mail but the best part was the packages waiting for me. I received my hexie flowers from my March
partner in the "Inchy Hexagon Flower
Swap."Larissa from
Australia sewed these beautiful flowers for me.
She also included a cute, crocheted heart and a lovely card. Thanks, Larissa.

Another package in the mail was a
giveaway I won
from"Kenna
Quilts Leap Day Giveaway"way back on February 29th. So Kenna’s family all came down with
something and were sick and that delayed the shipment of the package. I understand completely. No problem.
In the meantime, I was on my trip and the package arrived at my post
office but I didn’t receive it until I returned and “Wow,” was it worth the
wait. Look at these 7 beautiful fat
quarters. Kenna, thank you!

I did a lot of prep
work for “My Jane” blocks before leaving on our road trip so I was able to
complete a few on the drive out. Here is
B-5. It was easy paper-piecing and
appliqué.

B-5

And here is B-9. It looks rather “goofy” for some reason. That little white square in the middle
looks so tiny and lonely. I’m thinking
that I probably made it the wrong size but I’m not doing any of these blocks
over unless they are absolutely wrong.

B-9

Then I sewed two more
Little Houses for "Little Dutch Houses from Scraps."
I have a total of 9 now. These
last two houses were all hand-sewn. Man,
is that ever hard. Well, I paper-pieced
them and it’s hard to sew through the paper with a hand-needle so maybe that
was the problem. Maybe I should have
just cut out the little-bitty pieces and done it that way. I’ll try that next time or maybe just
continue to machine-sew them. Here
are my little crooked houses: